Picture Play Magazine (Mar-Aug 1927)

118 Advertising Section Fashions in Etiquette Change Good Form To=day is Different from the flood Form of a Few Years Ago The Very Last Word on the Subject of Correct Behavior is The Book of ETIQUETTE By Laura Alston Brown Every Possible Topic dealing with the social relationships in which human beings participate is covered in this comprehensive volume of 244 pages. In all, 176 topics are treated. These include : The Etiquette of Christenings Conduct of the Engaged Girl Conduct of the Engaged Man Entertaining Guests Table Manners Calling Customs Letters of Intro= duction Wording of Invi= tations Accepting or Declin= ing Invitations Funeral Etiquette Courtesy to Servants The Woman who Travels Automobile Etiquette Public Dances Streetcar Etiquette The Etiquette of Sport OTHER VOLUMES OF ETIQUETTE—MANY OF THEM NOTHING LIKE AS COMPREHENSIVE AS THIS ONE —ARE SOLD AT FROM $2.50 TO $5. "The Book of Etiquette," by Laura Alston Brown, the most complete, up-to-date and authoritative work of the kind ever issued, is priced at ONE DOLLAR Id an Attractive and Durable Fabrikoid Binding Order from Your Bookseller or from CHELSEA HOUSE Publishers 79 Seventh Avenue, New York bara Bedford are the husband and wife eventually reconciled. "Orchids and Ermine" — First National. Colleen Moore wasted in thin, unamusing tale of a switchboard operator who marries a rich young man ' posing as a valet. Jack Mulhall is the young man. "Popular Sin, The" — Paramount. Not so good. Sophisticated comedy of marriage and divorce, with Florence Vidor, Clive Brook, Greta Nissen, and Philip Strange jointly entangled. "Rubber Tires" — Producers Distributing. Boring picture of the frantic efforts of a family to recover a discarded car whose value has suddenly risen to ten thousand dollars. Bessie Love and Harrison Ford. "Sea Tiger, The" — First National. Silly film, laid in the Canary Islands, of two brothers, a girl they both love, and a trouble-making vamp from Broadway. Milton Sills, Mary Astor, and Larry Kent. "Taxi, Taxi" — Universal. Edward Everett Horton miscast in comedy of young draftsman who takes his employer's niece, Marian Nixon, out for the evening and gets mixed up with a crook. "Third Degree, The" — Warner. Con ventional society meljdrama in which Dolores Costello, as a former circus girl, suffers and suffers while her wealthy husband kills the villain who attempts to compromise her. "Valencia" — Metro-Goldwyn. Dull film showing Mae Murray as a Spanish dancer who is wooed simultaneously by a sailor and a nobleman — Lloyd Hughes and Roy d'Arcy. "When a Man Loves" — Warner. John Barrymore in stagy artificial screen version of "Manon Lescaut," the tale of the troubles of a French cavalier and his flirtatious mistress. Dolores Costello miscast as Manon. "White Black Sheep, The"— First National. Richard Barthelmess in unconvincing film of a disowned son who goes to the Orient, saves the British nation, and is forgiven by father. "White Flannels" — Warner. Louise Dresser in tale of a poor, drudging miner's widow who makes a "gentleman" of her son only to be humiliated by his high-class sweetheart. "Wrong Mr. Wright, The" — Universal. Mirthless farce featuring Jean Hersholt as the sappy son of a corset manufacturer who is mistaken for the cashier who has absconded with the funds. Enid Bennett is a lady detective. Information, Please Continued from page 102 ida. Her real name is Kathleen Morrison. Lloyd Hughes was born in Bisbee, Arizona, October 21, 1897. George Lewis was born in Mexico City — his biography doesn't say when. Blanche Sweet was born in Chicago and educated at Berkeley, California. I never heard of her having lived in Saskatchewan at any time. Lytell Fax. — No, Rochester can't claim Bert Lytell as a native son — he was born in New York City. I don't know whether his parents were American or English. Billy Boweston, Jr., Claire Windsor's son by her first husband, is of course Bert's stepson. Sunny. — Of course you might as well write to me — I assure you it's being done. Clive Brook was born in London, June 1, 1891 ; he has dark hair and gray eyes. He is married to Mildred Evelyn, and they have two small children. Phillis Fundahn. — Of course Yakima Canutt makes up for the screen — all actors have to. He has been working lately at the Fine Arts Studio, 4500 Sunset Boulevard, Flollywood. Bob Custer is working at present at the Chadwick Studio, 1440 Gower Street, Hollywood. Miss H. R. — I'm sorry, but I wouldn't have space for a list of addresses as long as the one you ask for. The ones at the end of this department are just about all I have room for. Niles Welch is at present on tour in. "The Donovan Affair." When in New York, he lives with his wife, Elaine Gholson, at 140 East Forty-sixth Street. Harold Lockwood died nine years ago. Dolores Vivriett. — It's easy to join a fan club. Just write to one, inclosing a stamped envelope, and tell them you'd like to join. The object of each club is to boost the club's particular star, and to develop a friendly group of fans for correspondence purposes. Rod La Rocque was christened Rodrique. "Peg" Talmadge is the mother of Norma and Constance, but they call her Peg because they're j*ust that chummy. Bob Allen, Berxice Meadows, axd All Fax Clubs.— Please do not ask me to announce fan clubs a second time. I am glad to make announcements of new ones, but I haven't the space for further mention of them, with a long waiting list of letters to be answered in these columns. Doris Roxdeau. — Thanks for the greeting— same to you, and all that sort of thing. I'll be glad to become an honorary member of your club if it doesn't involve, any correspondence on my part. It was nice of Harry Langdon to send you such a lovely present. Harry comes from Council Bluffs, Iowa, and was once a newsboy. Then he got a job as assistant to a theater janitor. He made a hit with an "awkward" act one amateur night, and thus his stage career began. He traveled with a medicine show, and appeared in vaudeville and then musical comedy. Mack Sennett saw him on the stage and signed him up. The rest is history! I am unable to obtain exact data on his height, weight, age, coloring, and so forth. S. Bowden, England — Several people have come to my rescue and informed me that Louise Lovely has been making films in Australia. Thank you for your assistance, as Queen Elizabeth must have said to Sir Walter Raleigh when he picked his coat out of the mud. Margaret Morris is about eighteen ; she was selected as one of the Wampas Baby Stars of 1925. Her pictures include "The Best People," "That's My Baby," "Born to the West," and "Bill Grimm's Progress." Anne Cornwall was born in 1897. She has played in too many pictures for me to be able to give you the entire list. Her more recent films include "Introduce Me," "The Rainbow Trail," "The Wrongdoers," "Keep Smil. ing," "The Splendid Crime," "The Flaming Frontier," "Racing Blood," and "The Totem-pole Beggar." As to where she may be reached, that is quite a problem. Miss Cornwall doesn't give her home address, and she is not connected with any one film company. The same is true of Gertrude